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all honour to make plain, as it is the theory involved 

 which it is also my endeavour, with all honour, to refute. 



I shall hope for some small credit in the success of 

 that, even if I fail in this. 



My authorities, whether as regards Workmen or Work, 

 will all be found named. To Mr. Francis Darwin's three 

 volumes of the Life and Letters, I have very special 

 obligations, as will readily appear : if for one's psychology 

 of grandfather and father one had respectively Miss 

 Seward and Miss Meteyard, one had for Charles Darwin 

 with himself only Mr. Francis. 



I may remind here also how I explain in my Gifford 

 Lectures, pp. 326, 375, and 376, that I had to forego a 

 first intention psychologically to inquire, " not only into 

 the life and character of Mr. Darwin himself, but into 

 those of his father, and specially of his grandfather ; " as 

 well as that I had found it impossible there and then to 

 do that justice properly to the theme of the Work " for 

 which I had prepared myself." 



It may sometimes prevent a confusion of names if the 

 reader start with knowing that Charles Darwin's grand- 

 father, the Dr. Erasmus Darwin of Zoonomia and the 

 Botanic Garden, had two sons. These were called, the 

 one Erasmus, and the other Dr. Eobert Waring. This 

 Erasmus had an untimely death. Dr. B. W. was the 

 father of our hero, Charles. Charles had for brother a 

 third Erasmus ; and he had also for son Mr. Francis 

 Darwin ; whose grandfather, consequently, was Dr. E. W. 

 Darwin. 



